It is raining again. It rains here pretty much everyday. Not that I am complaining - I was really nervous about the weather before we came here, everybody kept on telling me it's hot it's really hot. But it actually is NOT. Maybe it's hot for people who have not been traumatized by living in Texas? I guess. Having survived a few springs, summers and autumns in Austin, Texas it's difficult for me to judge the ambient temperature in an unbiased way. Would you say 32 degrees Celsius is hot? See, I wouldn't. For me it's pleasantly warm. Hot is when it hits 38, not to mention 42, and more... So Singapore weather is rather pleasant. It's jeans and t-shirt friendly, which cannot be said about Austin in the middle of June. It does get humid, when the sun comes out or immediately before it is going to start raining - but it's not drastic. So I can live with weather like that, I have no complaints. If I was here on holiday, I might have a problem, though, since getting some beach time between one spell of rain and another seems to be difficult. We went to Santosa Island last weekend - just to check it out and to participate in a family event for the employees of B.'s company and one of the restaurants on the beach there that offered beach chairs, food and drinks right there on the beach actually had a sign with a weather forecast that said at the bottom: That's the weather forecast! It's Singapore! Don't blame us ;). So I am not going to blame anybody. It has to be said that it rains for an hour or so (maybe a bit longer sometimes) and then it STOPS. And when it rains the temperature does not really drop - which is a strange sensation to me, having been born and raised in Poland, where when it rains it gets cold. Here - it just rains. As if the rain was just a part of the whole deal, it's like the sky was doing its daily watering of all the lusciously green trees and plants. We are going to Bali next weekend and I really hope that the plant watering is not so intense there - I would really like some quality beach time. I think we are going to go back to Santosa, more than once, because that's the closest one can get to being on the beach here, but without the swimming being on the beach is just somewhat fun. And the swimming is rather unattractive an option at Santosa, given all the ships that leisurely hang out literally everywhere in sight. Ruining not only the landscape, but also the quality of water. So I am looking forward to the Bali weekend. Keep your fingers crossed for no rain for us!
The photos are from Santosa Island, from last Saturday. We went across a little bridge to a wooden structure - a view point that claims to be the Southern Most Point of Continental Asia. It freaked me out a little to see how far I away from my comfort zone I am ;). But then, on the other hand, I am in Asia, one degree north of the equator and life goes on... just like everywhere else.